ICAW 2017: Biodegradable Plastic? Compostable Plastic? BioCompost? What’s the difference?
In honor of International Compost Awareness Week this week we’re going to focus on compostable plastic – what it is, what it can be used for, and how it can benefit the environment. Because being “green” and “organic” are seen as positive attributes for a long list of...
5 Popular Plastic Products That Should be Converted to Compostable Bioplastics Now!
There is no question that plastic products offer many short-term advantages to consumers around the world – their low cost, functionality, durability and light weight all provide benefits for an incredible range of everyday products. But they come at a heavy...
Plastic Makers Facing New Regulations Around Circular Economy
As recycling initiatives pick up steam nationwide and increasing numbers of states and communities embrace easier, more convenient recycling programs, legislatures are starting to consider more aggressive regulations around something called extender producer...
Reducing Landfill Waste with Innovative SEED Program
This month we’re spotlighting the Casella Waste Systems SEED™ (Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development) program. Our CEO Paul Boudreau and the UrthPact leadership team went to see Casella in action last November. Casella is serious about separating the...
A Look at Home Composting in Winter
Last October, Urthpact CEO Paul Boudreau sent his leadership team to Green Mountain Compost in Vermont to get the inside view on the challenges that composters face and how to make our compostable plastic products even more eco-friendly. Paul Boudreau and the UrthPact...
Spotlight on New Sustainability Initiatives
Here, at UrthPact we’re all about sustainability and developing compostable bioplastic products made from renewable feedstocks instead of non-renewable, petroleum-based resources. In the course of promoting environmentally-friendly, plant-based plastic products,...
Adventures in Plastics with Paul Boudreau
Plastic is everywhere. It is almost impossible to pick up a product these days that does not have some amount of plastic in it. There’s a good reason for this, though – plastic is relatively inexpensive, durable, versatile, and attractive. It comes in a variety of...
Two Companies Team Up
At Urthpact, we’re proud to be teaming up with plastic product recyclables leader Preserve to introduce a new line of environmentally-friendly, single-use cutlery that’s being rolled out March 1 in over 400 locations of a major national grocery chain that we can’t...
Paul Boudreau, CEO of UrthPact, featured in Sentinel & Enterprise’s Memorable People of 2016
When the CEO of UrthPact was discussing his lifetime of work in Leominster's plastics industry and his partnership with a San Francisco company to develop an environmentally friendly "K-Cup" he said, "I kind of thought, 'Is that what it's going to say on my...
Sentinel & Enterprise: A greener K-Cup alternative, built right here in Leominster
LEOMINSTER -- A banner hangs above the factory floor of the injection-molding company UrthPact that reads: "Good is the enemy of great." For CEO Paul Boudreau, good is delivering a product that customers want, but great is being able to develop a product with the...